re: Saints are leading the charge with "adding a voided year" RE: Cook's Contract

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I do miss our 3 safety sets that worked well for us in the past.

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Only reason we played 3 safeties is because Vaccaro couldn't play a true safety position. He played the majority in nickel and some as a box safety (like a smaller/faster OLB).

We have zero need to go this route now. Neither Williams nor Bell excell in man so it makes zero sense to play a third. We only had 3 safeties on 8% of the snaps last year (compared to 3 CBs on 72% and 3 LBs on 20%).

So unless we get another "safety" like Vaccaro, another guy would just be insurance (which isn't bad if they come cheap).

If we got a guy like Boston, it'd be akin to having Coleman last year. Someone is going to be sitting most of the time barring injury (turned out to be the overly expensive guy sitting) because none of them can consistently play nickel like Vaccaro could.